How are zlib, gzip and zip related?

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  • miniz

    miniz: Single C source file zlib-replacement library, originally from code.google.com/p/miniz

  • FYI there is an effort to create a new zlib compatible library that is much faster by Richard Geldreich:

    https://github.com/richgel999/miniz

  • crfs

    CRFS: Container Registry Filesystem

  • It can be very useful: https://github.com/google/crfs#introducing-stargz

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  • unblob

    Extract files from any kind of container formats

  • If you are interested in implementation details, how to unpack/decompress them, check out these Python implementations:

    - https://github.com/onekey-sec/unblob/blob/main/unblob/handle...

    - https://github.com/onekey-sec/unblob/blob/main/unblob/handle...

    - https://github.com/onekey-sec/unblob/blob/main/unblob/handle...

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